Originally Posted by DonMoore10:
I went back and calculated from the BMARA web site. From 1999 to 2008 you've had a drop in BMARA regular car count of close to 50% with a 5% error of cars that took the green flag for your shows. In 2008, you had one show with a car count of 16. Lowest car count in 1999 was 30. That is close to my reported 50%. .....
If I used your same logic and manipulated the data to make a point, I could say that from 1999 to 2007 that the car count increased 4%. (The high from 1999 was 49 and the high from 2007 was 51)
However, if you looked at the data from an objective point of view, you would not look at a one night high or a one night low, but the average for the year. When you look at the average for the year for the 10 year period, one would say exactly what Parks said. With the exception of last year, the car counts have been fairly consistent. In fact, in the early years of the decade there was an actually increase in the average car count.
If you are going to use numbers to make your point, make sure that you are telling the whole truth and not the truth you want to make. Your 50% reduction post is not a truthful statement.